life (VSL) and the degree of complementarity between consumption and labor supplied when health status serves as a … potential source of variation in this relationship. Our empirical analysis finds that variations in an individual's health …

This paper examines the role of medical care in improving health and compares that value of better health produced by … medical care with the costs of that care. Valuing medical care requires measuring the health of the population. We start by … developing a measure of the nation's health capital -- the dollar value of health a person will have over the course of their …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …

Zeitverwendungserhebung, 2012-13, have sufficient observations to allow examining the theory of household production in much more detail than …